Natasha Romanoff has been fighting an uphill battle ever since she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. In addition to being the only female Avenger in a boys’ club of super-powered dudes (for a time), plans to give her a solo film kept getting derailed by Marvel’s musical chairs approach to priorities and other extraneous factors. When Marvel finally announced Cate Shortland’s 2021 film Black Widow, some fans felt it was too late for the deceased assassin to spend her time in the sun. Despite the film’s questionable CGI and bizarre positioning in the MCU timetable, Black Widow brings some of the best aspects of the character center stage. Black Widow also gives fans Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), arguably one of Marvel’s best on-screen characters in a post-Endgame world. However, did you know David Hayter (Wolves) almost directed a Black Widow film in 2004? It almost happened,...
- 12/29/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
All through the weekend, tributes and memorials poured in for Rush drummer Neil Peart, who died last week of cancer at 67. The band’s progressive and distinctive yet ever-changing sound made a lasting impact on music fans during their 40-plus-year career, and it also affected pop culture, by tapping the minds of creative types who went on to reference the band in countless films, TV shows, novels, comics and more. The list of Rush name-drops runs the gamut from “Sctv” and “Gilmore Girls” to films like “High Fidelity,” “School of Rock” and Rob Zombie’s 2007 “Halloween” remake, which used “Tom Sawyer” in a climactic scene. There are plenty more — and true to their self-deprecating senses of humor — the members of Rush have never had any problem making fun of themselves — the band often played along. Below five of the best and funniest times Rush made an indelible mark on pop culture.
- 1/13/2020
- by Jeff Cornell
- Variety Film + TV
John Williams is only getting better with age.
The renowned composer scored his 52nd Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Monday.
Williams, 87, broke his own record with the nomination. The only other person Williams trails behind is Walt Disney, who received 59 Academy Award nominations including 22 total award wins, according to Forbes.
Williams has won a total of five Oscars for Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, Jaws and Fiddler on the Roof.
His first Oscar nomination came from composing the score for the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.
The renowned composer scored his 52nd Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Monday.
Williams, 87, broke his own record with the nomination. The only other person Williams trails behind is Walt Disney, who received 59 Academy Award nominations including 22 total award wins, according to Forbes.
Williams has won a total of five Oscars for Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, Jaws and Fiddler on the Roof.
His first Oscar nomination came from composing the score for the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.
- 1/13/2020
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
“Subdivisions,” one of Rush’s most beloved songs, is also one of their simplest. Geddy Lee’s insistent synth riff gives the track — a fan favorite from 1982’s Signals — a muted, almost drone-y quality. So you might hear it 100 times before you realize what’s going on just underneath the surface: That Neil Peart, the band’s brilliantly obsessive supergenius of a drummer, has gone to the trouble of crafting a different drum part for every single verse.
He starts the first one (“Sprawling on the fringes of the city…...
He starts the first one (“Sprawling on the fringes of the city…...
- 1/11/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich paid tribute Neil Peart Friday, soon after it was revealed that the legendary Rush drummer died earlier in the week at the age of 67.
“Thank you Neil,” Ulrich wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for inspiring me and for all your help and advice along the way, especially in the early days when you took the time to talk to a young green Danish drummer about recording, gear and the possibilities that lay ahead…”
Ulrich continued, “Thank you for what you did for drummers all over the world with your passion,...
“Thank you Neil,” Ulrich wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for inspiring me and for all your help and advice along the way, especially in the early days when you took the time to talk to a young green Danish drummer about recording, gear and the possibilities that lay ahead…”
Ulrich continued, “Thank you for what you did for drummers all over the world with your passion,...
- 1/11/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California at age 67. The cause was brain cancer, which he had been quietly battling for three years, according to Elliot Mintz, a spokesperson for the Peart family. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone.
Peart was widely considered one of the best drummers in rock history, with a flamboyant yet utterly precise style that paid homage to his hero, The Who’s Keith Moon, while going well beyond that example. He...
Peart was widely considered one of the best drummers in rock history, with a flamboyant yet utterly precise style that paid homage to his hero, The Who’s Keith Moon, while going well beyond that example. He...
- 1/10/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 101 of “The Politician.”)
David Corenswet had a Tom Sawyer-like experience while shooting Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “The Politician” when he attended a memorial service for his character River, a Santa Barbara, California, teenager who commits suicide in the show’s very first episode.
During the high school’s service for River, Payton Hobart (played by Ben Platt) sings Joni Mitchell’s “River” as a tribute to Corenswet’s character, a boy Payton was publicly running against for student body president and with whom he privately had a very complicated, intimate relationship.
And as morbid as it might be to see a portrait of yourself on stage, covered in flowers, as actors in the audience mourn your fictional passing, Corenswet wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity to hear Platt sing and counts the experience as one of his favorites...
David Corenswet had a Tom Sawyer-like experience while shooting Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “The Politician” when he attended a memorial service for his character River, a Santa Barbara, California, teenager who commits suicide in the show’s very first episode.
During the high school’s service for River, Payton Hobart (played by Ben Platt) sings Joni Mitchell’s “River” as a tribute to Corenswet’s character, a boy Payton was publicly running against for student body president and with whom he privately had a very complicated, intimate relationship.
And as morbid as it might be to see a portrait of yourself on stage, covered in flowers, as actors in the audience mourn your fictional passing, Corenswet wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity to hear Platt sing and counts the experience as one of his favorites...
- 9/28/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
“You like Mark Twain?” asks a character midway through Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s road movie. The person saying this is a man who is, coincidentally, named Tyler, a swamp rat played by Shia Labeouf so beautifully backwoods-scuzzy that you can practically smell the country funk coming off of him. The woman he’s addressing is Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a city-dweller who’s found herself in a middle-of-nowhere service station and in his company. The question is rhetorical. Whether or not she’s a fan of the literary genius,...
- 8/9/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
On March 20th of this year, Disney did something that seemed impossible: it got bigger. Almost ten years after The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment, it merged with 21st Century Fox. That means a couple things, chief among them being that some of your favorite movies will still be made, but a whole bunch of them are getting the axe.
The sheer number of cancellations means we can’t cover them all here, but we’ll most definitely go over the big ones. Redditor Turcois has done the hard work of compiling the full list for us (which can be seen via the link below), but before you read the bad news, the good news is that some really big movies have survived the cut.
Among them are the Avatar sequels, meaning James Cameron will get a chance to give Avenger: Endgame and its top spot on the worldwide...
The sheer number of cancellations means we can’t cover them all here, but we’ll most definitely go over the big ones. Redditor Turcois has done the hard work of compiling the full list for us (which can be seen via the link below), but before you read the bad news, the good news is that some really big movies have survived the cut.
Among them are the Avatar sequels, meaning James Cameron will get a chance to give Avenger: Endgame and its top spot on the worldwide...
- 8/9/2019
- by Sam Plank
- We Got This Covered
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a sweet transcendentalist fantasy as sunny as its Southern backdrop. It also has a charming Shia Labeouf.
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There is something quintessentially optimistic about the rolling of a river and the drift of the sea. It represents endless possibility, which could be argued is a distinctly American trait. Author Samuel Clemens (under a certain nom de plume) tapped into that with his transcendentalist novel that reached for sunny aspirations, even while exposing the hypocritical rot beneath. I imagine he’d get a kick out of The Peanut Butter Falcon too, an infinitely sweet indie that wears its Mark Twain inspiration on its sleeve just as readily as it does the cardboard box that makes up its wrestling gear.
Assuredly a Southern tall tale where every character is graced with a whisper of the mythic, even when it’s only in their own minds,...
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There is something quintessentially optimistic about the rolling of a river and the drift of the sea. It represents endless possibility, which could be argued is a distinctly American trait. Author Samuel Clemens (under a certain nom de plume) tapped into that with his transcendentalist novel that reached for sunny aspirations, even while exposing the hypocritical rot beneath. I imagine he’d get a kick out of The Peanut Butter Falcon too, an infinitely sweet indie that wears its Mark Twain inspiration on its sleeve just as readily as it does the cardboard box that makes up its wrestling gear.
Assuredly a Southern tall tale where every character is graced with a whisper of the mythic, even when it’s only in their own minds,...
- 8/7/2019
- Den of Geek
By Todd Garbarini
Cinemaretro.com has received the following press release regarding the exhibition of the new film Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019, which will be shown in select theaters on Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
Rush (pun intended!) to get your tickets now as they are selling out very quickly (let’s hope that additional dates are added!):
Trafalgar Releasing And Anthem Entertainment Bring
‘Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019’ To Movie Theaters Worldwide On August 21
This First Ever “Annual Exercise In Fan Indulgence” For Rush Fans Will Feature A Special Look Into R40 Live, Featuring New Backstage Footage, Special Guests, And Hit Songs “Closer To The Heart,” “Subdivisions” And More
Tickets On Sale From June 20 At WWW.Cinemastrangiato.Com
Denver, Co – June 11, 2019: Global event distributor Trafalgar Releasing today announced Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019, coming to select cinemas across the globe, for a special, limited theatrical engagement on Wednesday, August 21. Hailed as the first "Annual Exercise...
Cinemaretro.com has received the following press release regarding the exhibition of the new film Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019, which will be shown in select theaters on Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
Rush (pun intended!) to get your tickets now as they are selling out very quickly (let’s hope that additional dates are added!):
Trafalgar Releasing And Anthem Entertainment Bring
‘Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019’ To Movie Theaters Worldwide On August 21
This First Ever “Annual Exercise In Fan Indulgence” For Rush Fans Will Feature A Special Look Into R40 Live, Featuring New Backstage Footage, Special Guests, And Hit Songs “Closer To The Heart,” “Subdivisions” And More
Tickets On Sale From June 20 At WWW.Cinemastrangiato.Com
Denver, Co – June 11, 2019: Global event distributor Trafalgar Releasing today announced Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019, coming to select cinemas across the globe, for a special, limited theatrical engagement on Wednesday, August 21. Hailed as the first "Annual Exercise...
- 6/21/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Journey has taken much of 2019 off so everyone in the group can focus on solo endeavors. That ends in October when the band heads to Las Vegas for a nine-show residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Ticket prices begin at just $69, but primo seats will go for significantly more. They will go on-sale to the general public on Friday, though pre-sales begin tomorrow.
Journey last toured in the summer of 2018 when they played 60 co-headlining shows with Def Leppard. It was a wildly-successful outing that packed arenas all over the...
Journey last toured in the summer of 2018 when they played 60 co-headlining shows with Def Leppard. It was a wildly-successful outing that packed arenas all over the...
- 4/15/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
A million American GIs are bivouacked in the English countryside, awaiting debarkation to France… and the green fields are loaded with young English women, whose own men have been off fighting for years. John Schlesinger puts together a good drama, with an excellent cast; he also avoids the expected ‘please wait for me!’ clichés attendant to this subgenre of war film.
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Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 139 min. / Street Date , 2019 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Wendy Morgan, Rachel Roberts, Tony Melody, Derek Thompson.
Cinematography: Dick Bush
Film Editor: Jim Clark
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein
Produced by Joseph Janni, Lester Persky
Directed by John Schlesinger
Director John Boorman got to tell his personal wartime home front story in his warm and funny Hope and Glory, and eight years earlier the...
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Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 139 min. / Street Date , 2019 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Wendy Morgan, Rachel Roberts, Tony Melody, Derek Thompson.
Cinematography: Dick Bush
Film Editor: Jim Clark
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein
Produced by Joseph Janni, Lester Persky
Directed by John Schlesinger
Director John Boorman got to tell his personal wartime home front story in his warm and funny Hope and Glory, and eight years earlier the...
- 2/2/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
As Tom Sawyer learned when the people of St. Petersburg, Missouri gathered to erroneously mourn him, Huck Finn and Joe Harper, funerals are wasted on the dead. Better to say all those nice things to the ones you love while they’re still around to hear them.
Last spring, Brooklyn Nine-Nine got to briefly play the role of Tom Sawyer and learn the same lesson. For the day in between when Fox canceled the Andy Samberg/Andre Braugher police comedy and NBC revived it, there was an outpouring of grief...
Last spring, Brooklyn Nine-Nine got to briefly play the role of Tom Sawyer and learn the same lesson. For the day in between when Fox canceled the Andy Samberg/Andre Braugher police comedy and NBC revived it, there was an outpouring of grief...
- 1/9/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
The Good Place introduces us to Jason's family in The Good Place and suffers from some Florida over-exposure.
This The Good Place review contains spoilers
The Good Place Season 3 Episode 5
The Good Place for all of its technical brilliance and upending of traditional network sitcom structure is still a network sitcom. This is a half-hour comedy that receives a 13-episode order each year. At some point each season, The Good Place has adopted something resembling a status quo.
In season one, the return to the status quo meant Eleanor discovering the truth about Jianyu/Jason and inviting him to philosophy lessons with Chidi week after week. In season two the status quo saw Tahani and Michael joining the philosophy lessons while the whole gang tried to avoid discovery by Sean and the demons.
In season three we have now arrived at a tenuous status quo. For at least a few weeks now,...
This The Good Place review contains spoilers
The Good Place Season 3 Episode 5
The Good Place for all of its technical brilliance and upending of traditional network sitcom structure is still a network sitcom. This is a half-hour comedy that receives a 13-episode order each year. At some point each season, The Good Place has adopted something resembling a status quo.
In season one, the return to the status quo meant Eleanor discovering the truth about Jianyu/Jason and inviting him to philosophy lessons with Chidi week after week. In season two the status quo saw Tahani and Michael joining the philosophy lessons while the whole gang tried to avoid discovery by Sean and the demons.
In season three we have now arrived at a tenuous status quo. For at least a few weeks now,...
- 10/23/2018
- Den of Geek
Watch: A member of the Baltimore Ravens marching band was caught on camera air-drumming along to Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ A short video of a man air-drumming Rush song “Tom Sawyer“ at an NFL game has gone viral, exploding with hundreds of thousands of interactions. After Sunday evening’s game between the Buffalo Bills and the Baltimore Ravens, the man, a...
- 9/14/2018
- by Ethan Cohen
- ET Canada
The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has hosted a deep and diverse lineup for the Peach Music Festival since the event was launched by the Allman Brothers Band in 2012, but the seventh annual rendition provided the most colorful bill yet. From Allman Brothers co-founder Dickey Betts and South Carolina soul rockers the Marcus King Band to Nashville songwriter Nicki Bluhm and jam titans Moe., the Peach served up four freewheeling days of inspired music. Here are the 10 best things we saw. (Photos courtesy of the Peach Music Festival...
- 7/23/2018
- by Matt Mattei
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 7/23/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
“Sharp Edges” (as in blades) is the perfect title for a documentary about Tonya Harding. But who would have had the prescience to think of that title a decade before her infamy? Last year, when “I, Tonya” came out, there were those (like me) who flipped for it, and those who didn’t. The appearance this week of “Sharp Edges,” a documentary about Harding made in 1986, eight years before the incident that made her famous, isn’t likely to change minds in either camp. Yet as an “I, Tonya” believer, I watched this fascinating found object of a movie, directed by Sandra Luckow as her senior-thesis project at Yale, eager to see if it supported or undercut the vision of Tonya Harding and her demons put forth by Craig Gillespie’s audacious awards-bait docudrama. What it reveals, to me, is how close to the truth of Harding’s life “I,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Keala Settle, co-star of the smash movie musical The Greatest Showman, hit the stage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre on Wednesday night to sing a killer rendition of the iconic Disneyland theme, “It’s a Small World,” the kickoff to a magical night as Oscar celebrated the writers of that tune: Disney legends Richard M Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
So the lyrics might have said “it’s a small world,” but the lines outside the Academy to get into this sold-out tribute were anything but small, with upward of 100 turned away due to capacity issues. Every seat was taken, and some even tried sitting in the aisles for this once-in-a-lifetime show called The Sherman Brothers: A Hollywood Songbook, timed to Richard Sherman’s 90th birthday (the actual date was June 12). He is the surviving brother of the duo, with Robert having passed...
So the lyrics might have said “it’s a small world,” but the lines outside the Academy to get into this sold-out tribute were anything but small, with upward of 100 turned away due to capacity issues. Every seat was taken, and some even tried sitting in the aisles for this once-in-a-lifetime show called The Sherman Brothers: A Hollywood Songbook, timed to Richard Sherman’s 90th birthday (the actual date was June 12). He is the surviving brother of the duo, with Robert having passed...
- 6/22/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Everyone who left the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Wednesday night was humming. It might have been “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Winnie the Pooh,” “It’s a Small World” or any of a dozen other tunes written over the past 50 years by Richard M. Sherman and his late brother Robert B. Sherman, but they were humming something.
The Motion Picture Academy’s two-and-a-half-hour salute to the songwriters, billed as “The Sherman Brothers: A Hollywood Songbook,” may have been the most joyous celebration in that theater in recent memory. Multiple standing ovations and a warm, infectious feeling of Disney-fueled happiness were the order of the evening.
The Shermans — Dick, who just turned 90, and his brother Bob, who died in 2012 — penned some of the most memorable movie songs in history, many of them for Walt Disney. As Dick Van Dyke, reminiscing about being on the set of “Mary Poppins,” put it, “there was...
The Motion Picture Academy’s two-and-a-half-hour salute to the songwriters, billed as “The Sherman Brothers: A Hollywood Songbook,” may have been the most joyous celebration in that theater in recent memory. Multiple standing ovations and a warm, infectious feeling of Disney-fueled happiness were the order of the evening.
The Shermans — Dick, who just turned 90, and his brother Bob, who died in 2012 — penned some of the most memorable movie songs in history, many of them for Walt Disney. As Dick Van Dyke, reminiscing about being on the set of “Mary Poppins,” put it, “there was...
- 6/21/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The following story contains massive spoilers from Scandal‘s series finale — proceed at your own peril!
In the end, David Rosen fell short of the finish line. Joshua Malina‘s Abby-loving Ag was poisoned to death by Cyrus in Thursday’s Scandal swan song. He was, rather surprisingly, the show’s only major series-finale fatality — a distinction we have a hunch his hilariously egomaniacal portrayer will interpret as the sincerest form of Shonda Rhimes-induced flattery. But we didn’t want to assume. So we asked Malina ourselves in a phone interview conducted Friday evening.
Tvline | How does it feel...
In the end, David Rosen fell short of the finish line. Joshua Malina‘s Abby-loving Ag was poisoned to death by Cyrus in Thursday’s Scandal swan song. He was, rather surprisingly, the show’s only major series-finale fatality — a distinction we have a hunch his hilariously egomaniacal portrayer will interpret as the sincerest form of Shonda Rhimes-induced flattery. But we didn’t want to assume. So we asked Malina ourselves in a phone interview conducted Friday evening.
Tvline | How does it feel...
- 4/21/2018
- TVLine.com
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